May 20 - Deaths

Deaths

• 685 – King Ecgfrith of Northumbria (b. 645)
• 1277 – Pope John XXI (b. 1215)
• 1285 – John II of Jerusalem, King of Cyprus (b. 1259)
• 1444 – Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (b. 1380)
• 1503 – Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, Italian banker, politician and patron of the arts (b. 1463)
• 1506 – Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (b. 1451)
• 1550 – Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (b. 1510)
• 1622 – Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1604)
• 1648 – King Wladislaus IV of Poland (b. 1595)
• 1677 – George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (b. 1612)
• 1713 – Thomas Sprat, English writer (b. 1635)
• 1717 – John Trevor, British statesman (b. 1637)
• 1722 – Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (b. 1669)
• 1732 – Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (b. 1676)
• 1782 – William Emerson, British mathematician (b. 1701)
• 1793 – Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist (b. 1720)
• 1812 – Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1732)
• 1825 – Papaflessas, Greek priest and government official (b. 1788)
• 1834 – Gilbert du Motier, French statesman (b. 1757)
• 1841 – Joseph Blanco White, British theologian (b. 1775)
• 1873 – Sir George-Étienne Cartier, French-Canadian statesman (b. 1814)
• 1880 – Ana Néri, Brazilian nurse (b. 1814)
• 1896 – Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (b. 1819)
• 1909 – Ernest Hogan, American comedian and musician, one of the creators of ragtime (b. 1859)
• 1917 – Philipp von Ferrary, Italian philatelist (b. 1850)
• 1917 – Valentine Fleming, Scottish politician (b. 1887)
• 1940 – Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1859)
• 1946 – Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (b. 1871)
• 1947 – Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
• 1947 – Georgios Siantos, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (b. 1890)
• 1949 – Randolph West, American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1890)
• 1956 – Max Beerbohm, English theatre critic (b. 1872)
• 1961 – Josef "Pips" Priller, German flying ace (b. 1915)
• 1971 – Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (b. 1904)
• 1973 – Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
• 1975 – Barbara Hepworth, British sculptor (b. 1903)
• 1976 – Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
• 1976 – Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan Christian-Democrat Party politician (b. 1924)
• 1976 – Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, Uruguayan National Party politician (b. 1934)
• 1989 – John Hicks, English economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
• 1989 – Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress (b. 1946)
• 1992 – Roger Keith Coleman, American convict (b. 1958)
• 1996 – Jon Pertwee, British actor (b. 1919)
• 2000 – Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (b. 1922)
• 2000 – Malik Sealy, American basketball player (b. 1970)
• 2001 – Renato Carosone, Italian musician (b. 1920)
• 2002 – Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (b. 1941)
• 2005 – Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (b. 1913)
• 2005 – William Seawell, U.S. Army Brigadier General (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (b. 1914)
• 2008 – Hamilton Jordan, American White House Chief of Staff under President Carter (b. 1944)
• 2009 – Arthur Erickson, Canadian architect (b.1924)
• 2009 – Lucy Gordon, British model and actress (b. 1980)